Hi, I am new to Hadoop and wish to pitch in! This is my second email ofthis nature, as I'm not sure if my first was addressed correctly. I'vebeen looking over the various issues on Jira and I'm wondering what thefirst steps should be, i.e. what should I start with to get familiarwith the code base. I was also wondering how to submit my intent to makea fix/do a push when I make a change.

Regards, Joseph.I think that depends in which project to want to work. The Hadoop ecosystem is very rich, so, I think that youshould start looking which project seems more interesting to you.

I will give you an example of my own: The project that I want to work is HBase, so the first step is looking in the JIRAs for HBASE. Interesting projects right now in HBase, at least for me: - HBASE-5313 [1] - HBASE-4818 [2] - HBASE-3857 [3] - HBASE-5521 [4]

The second step is to view who is working on these issues:- Dhruba Borthakur [5]- Lars Hofhansl [6]- Todd Lipcon [7]- and many more...

You can ask them how do you want to help them, or simply look for JIRAs marked with easyresolution, and begin to these issues to get inside the HBase code or the project which you wantto work.

If you are an student, Cloudera has several internships to work in real Hadoop projects, sotake a look to the Careers section at Cloudera.[8]